Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Lonesome number one

We have become a solitary race. Almost a third of UK households comprise of just one person. Back in 1971, the number was only 18 percent.

There are plenty of explanations; higher divorce rate, lower marriage rate, higher female incomes, and the generalised breakdown of the nuclear family. However, I can't help feeling that it is a bad thing. People need other people.

In a fractured, heterogenous society like modern Britain (rife with illegal immigrants, people of every race, ethnicity, faith on the planet), the best survival strategy is to cut loose from as much baggage as possible. When the state is forking over huge subsidies to ethnic minority families, you can't compete unless you go lean and mean. That's reality.